Internationally renowned for his humorous conceptual and performance artworks that address controversial social and political issues,artist Jay Critchley will be featured in this solo exhibition of his 30-year career. Jay Critchley, Incorporated culls together approximately 125 works including sculptures, installations, photographs, videos, posters and live performances by Critchley and his collaborators.Critchley uses ritual, wordplays and the mainstream media to address governmental power and corporate greed and their impacton areas such as the environment, health, sexuality and public discourse.

Jay Critchley, Incorporated was curated by Bailey Bob Bailey and debuted at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum inMay 2015. The exhibition will feature a series of collaborative, multidisciplinary installations with FAU Departments of Music,Visual Arts and Art History, and Theater and Dance. An illustrated catalog accompanies the exhibition.

Jay Critchley Reading: “Excerpts from Uncle Jay (A ‘Fictional’ Memoir)”Off the Page Literary SeriesFriday, February 5, 7 pmOff the Page is part of the 2015/16 Literary Series presented bythe FAU Department of English with Chris and Lori Fluehr.

Lecture: "Art and Activism in a Time of Crisis"Susan Platt,author of Art and Politics Now (Midmarch Arts Press, 2011)

Thursday, March 3, 6:30 pm at Performing Arts 101 Dr. Platt analyzes social and political concerns in contemporary art, with a perspective shaped by her backgroundas an art historian. Art and Politics in the 1930s, Modernism, Marxism and Americanism (Midmarch Arts Press, 1999)examines the contradictory critical arguments catalyzed by politically engaged art during the Depression years. Hermore recent book, Art and Politics Now, Cultural Activism in a Time of Crisis, (Midmarch Arts Press, 2011) focuseson art engaging issues such as opposition to war and racism, and ecological art between 1999- 2009.

She is currently curating exhibitions and working on a book about art that addresses immigration, detention,and deportation. The book will encompass both an historical trajectory as well as engaging with current art aboutimmigration that ranges from grass roots street art to museum art. As a professor of art history, she has taught atMills College, in Oakland California, Washington State University in Pullman Washington and the University of North Texas,in Denton, Texas.

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Florida Atlantic University embodies a culture of strategic and collaborative community engagement that results in mutual benefit to the institution and the diverse internal and external communities that it serves.